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The O’Keeffe com­pound, Abiquiu, New Mexico

I had a deli­cious expe­ri­ence vis­it­ing the Geor­gia O’Keeffe stu­dio in Abiquiu, New Mex­ico this past week­end. Located about an hours’ drive north­west of Santa Fe, the Span­ish colonial-​era com­pound was the painter’s per­sonal home and stu­dio; Ms. O’Keeffe also painted nearby at Ghost Ranch. As the brochure states: “ Tour­ing her per­sonal home and stu­dio in Abiquiu gives you a remark­able, first­hand glimpse into the way she lived and views of the land­scape she loved. She cre­ated some of her most famous and iconic works here.”

Geor­gia O’Keeffe’s studio

Geor­gia O’Keeffe, who died in Santa Fe in 1986 at the age of 99, was one of the most impor­tant artists in the 20th cen­tury, and a pio­neer of Amer­i­can Mod­ernism. I espe­cially love her flo­ral paint­ings and land­scapes. She was coura­geous in her con­vic­tion that women could paint as well as men, a belief not widely held when she started painting.

The court­yard she painted so many times

A favorite quote of Ms. O’Keeffe’s:

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to some­one else.

On the web:

  • Sept. 1 — 11: The Pot­ted Store/​Los Ange­les: Storewide Sale (www​.pot​ted​store​.com)
  • Sept. 2 — 4: City Farm­ers Nursery/​San Diego: Mas­ter Chain Saw Carver George Kenny carv­ing demo and auc­tion (www​.city​farm​er​snurs​ery​.com)
  • Sept. 3: Hunt­ing­ton Library and Gardens/​San Marino: 28th Annual Suc­cu­lent Plants Sym­po­sium (www​.hunt​ing​ton​.org)
  • Sept. 5: Des­canso Gardens/​la Canada: Redis­cover the Cal­i­for­nia Gar­den talk and tour (www​.des​canso​.com)
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Exploring coastal nurseries

Laguna Beach — design or happenstance?

Ahhhh, the coast. Most of us live within an hour or less of the ocean, but how often do we go? I grew up in St. Louis, and my favorite song in the 60’s was the Beach Boys Cal­i­for­nia Girls. I have vowed never to take the ocean for granted!

The Sun­set Mag­a­zine West­ern Gar­den Book has 24 cli­mate zones; num­ber 24 is des­ig­nated “Marine influ­ence along the South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Coast”. This is the most benev­o­lent of cli­mates. Never too hot or too cold, it is dom­i­nated by the mild Pacific Ocean in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. The nurs­eries along the Coast tend to mir­ror the cli­mate, car­ry­ing ten­der plants as well as suc­cu­lents, Aus­tralians and trop­i­cals. I have been told that toma­toes don’t care for the coast, although there are always excep­tions. And who hasn’t cursed the mildew on their roses dur­ing “June gloom”? After all, it’s only fair that there be some dis­ad­van­tages to liv­ing on the coast! Below is a list of truly coastal nurs­eries (all are listed to the left):

Ven­tura County:

  • Island View Nurs­ery (www​.island​viewnurs​ery​.com)
  • Rin­con Gar­dens (805−658−1518)
  • Sea­side gar­dens (www​.sea​side​-gar​dens​.com)

Mal­ibu:

  • Cosentino’s Nurs­ery (310−457−3981)
  • Mal­ibu Gar­dens Nurs­ery (310−457−3981)
  • Pacific View Nurs­ery (310−457−8356)

Los Ange­les

  • Marina del Rey Gar­den Cen­ter (www​.Mari​na​gar​den​cen​ter​.com)
  • Mer­ri­hews Sun­set Gar­dens (310−452−1051)

South Bay/​Long Beach

  • Deep Roots Gar­den Cen­ter (www​.deep​-roots​.net)
  • Per­for­mance Gar­den Nurs­ery (www​.per​for​man​cenurs​ery​.com)
  • Peters Gar­den Cen­ter (310−372−2288)

Orange County

  • Brita’s Old Town Gar­dens (www​.britas​gar​dens​.com)
  • Dana Point Nurs­ery (949−496−5137)
  • Laguna Nurs­ery (www​.lagu​na​nurs​ery​.net)
  • Laguna Gar­dens Nurs­ery (949−497−4950)
  • Rogers Gar­dens (www​.rogers​gar​dens​.com)
  • Sea­side Grow­ers (www​.seaside​grow​ers​.com)
  • Shore Gar­dens (949−942−3526)

San Diego County

  • Cedros Gar­dens (www​.cedros​gar​dens​.com)
  • Jun­gle Music (www​.jun​gle​mu​sic​.net)
  • Solana Suc­cu­lents (www​.solana​suc​cu​lents​.com)

Bloom­ing in Laguna Beach

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Mother’s Day Musings…

Esmer­alda and new­born baby Gnat

What can one say about moth­er­ing and nur­tur­ing? Moth­ers aren’t always nur­tur­ers and nur­tur­ers aren’t always moth­ers. How­ever I find that gar­den­ers are always nur­tur­ing their plants and often the envi­ron­ment. Moth­er­ing a plant? Why not? My suc­cu­lents are like my kids. They seem almost human to me because the dif­fer­ent kinds have so much personality..brash, prick­ley, shy, cun­ning, gre­gar­i­ous, intro­verted and totally frustrating!

But get­ting back to Esmer­alda and Gnat, they are moth­ered by Susan of www​.far​m​girl​fare​.com. This wise and witty blog fol­lows Susan’s unique per­spec­tive of going from city to farm. Go on and if you like what you see, subscribe…you will not be disappointed!

I lost my mom in June of 2005 but I’m blessed with my won­der­ful mother-​in-​law Ruth. I never thought I would be a mom but I lucked out with my won­der­ful daugh­ter Holly.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who nurture!!

My suc­cu­lent babies

On the Web:

Ander­sons La Costa Nurs­ery, Encini­tas: 20% off on all fruit trees thru May 12 /​ander​son​sla​costa​nurs​ery​.com

May 7:

Theodore Payne Foun­da­tion, Sun Val­ley: 8 am: A birds eye view of native plants /​10 am: 3 part Native plant design /​theodor​e​payne​.org

Venice Gar­den and Home Tour, Los Ange­les /​Venice​gar​den​tour​.org

City Farm­ers, San Diego: Rais­ing Tilapia as sim­ply as pos­si­ble, 1:30 — city​farm​er​snurs​ery​.com

Des­canso Gar­dens, La Canada: Iris Walk and Talk 11 am.…..Flower Mart Tour 7am — 2pm.…..May 8 Var­i­ous Mother’s Day events includ­ing brunch/descansogardens.org

May 7 & 8: Gera­nium Show at the Los Ange­les Arbore­tum –arbore​tum​.org

May 9: San Diego Hor­ti­cul­tural Soci­ety meet­ing: The Alchemy of Plants and Gar­dens: Source of Life and Inspi­ra­tion — sdhort​soc​.org

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Accessing the gardening internet — not as hard as it looks!

My home office

It seems that the peo­ple who would most love to access the gar­den­ing web — you and I — some­times have the hard­est time. Web flu­ency does not come nat­u­rally to those of us over a cer­tain age. But that shouldn’t stop anybody…we are all teach­able and it is so empow­er­ing to learn com­puter skills — I can attest to that. I have been told that the tablet type com­put­ers — such as the Ipad and Android — are eas­ier and intu­itive for email­ing and web surf­ing. Apple is very good at teach­ing their cus­tomers how to use their prod­ucts at free sem­i­nars at the Apple stores. Def­i­nitely worth look­ing into! Iron­i­cally, if you are read­ing this you are obvi­ously on the inter­net already; maybe you could encour­age some­body else? The fol­low­ing are favorite nurs­ery web­sites, gar­den­ing web­sites and blogs:

Web­sites:

SoCal​Nurs​ery​Plants​.com:

Spe­cialty nurseries:

Ven­tura County:

Los Angeles/​East Valley:

Los Angeles/​West Valley

Los Angeles

Orange County:

San Diego County

Cedros Gar­dens.….www​.cedros​gar​dens​.com (spe­cial native plant section)

Great Regional Nurseries:

Ven­tura County:

Los Angeles/​East Valley

Los Angeles/​West Valley

Los Ange­les

Orange County

San Diego County

More Web­sites

www​.blotan​i​cal​.com.….gar­den blogs from all over the world

www​.sun​set​.com.….includes Sun­set Mag­a­zines “plant finder”

www​.fine​gar​den​ing​.com.….includes arti­cles from the magazine

www​.authen​ticprovence​.com.….beau­ti­ful Euro­pean gar­den accessories

www​.flor​agrubb​.com.….great ideas for con­tain­ers and flower arrangements

www​.gar​den​visit​.com.….gar­dens to visit from all over the world

www​.back​yardgar​dener​.com/​f​o​r​ums.….forums on every topic imaginable

www​.dirt​cou​ture​.com.….cat­a­log of hand­made items

www​.gar​den​guides​.com.….every­thing garden

www​.cal​-IPC​.org.….info on inva­sive plants

www​.rar​eforms​.com.….where food,art and gar­den­ing meet — great photos

www​.ros​alind​creasy​.com.….edi­ble land­scap­ing — great photos

www​.plant​na​tive​.org.….info on native planting

www​.thewil​low​farm​.com.….every­thing wil­low includ­ing fencing

www​.straw​bale​gar​dens​.com.….how to make a straw bale garden

www​.gar​den​con​ser​vancy​.com.….source for info on Open Days gar­den tours

www​.mas​ter​gar​den​erssandiego​.com.….access to services

www​.plantfinder​.sun​set​.com.….Sun­set Mag­a­zine plantfinder

www​.mon​rovia​.com.….search their plant cat­a­log using spe­cific criteria

Blogs

(n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a pub­licly acces­si­ble per­sonal jour­nal for an indi­vid­ual. Often updated daily, blogs may reflect the per­son­al­ity of the author. Blogs are dif­fer­ent from web­sites as the con­tent changes fre­quently based on when the writer pub­lishes their post, or con­tent. These are some of my favorite gar­den­ing blogs:

www​.far​m​girl​fare​.com

www​.freshdirt​.com (Sun­set Magazine)

www​.chance​ofrain​.com

www​.urban​gar​dens​.com

www​.acces​so​ra​tor​.com

www​.mich​blog​ging​.blogspot​.com

www​.gar​den​rant​.com

www​.dirt​du​jour​.com

www​.ram​blingLA​.blogspot​.com

www​.the​gal​lop​ing​gar​dener​.blogspot​.com (gar­den travel)

www​.whiteon​rice​cou​ple​.com

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